You’ve been talking a lot and there have been some outbursts” to which a boy who truly is disruptive calls out the obvious that he’s disruptive and not her when he kind of stood up for her the teacher admits that he is but without further looking into the subject she moves on. Although Dawn the student who is getting a B is still getting a high grade she is not compared to the boys who are disruptive. She gets the lower grade because she is a girl and her behavior is seen as unacceptable and rude whereas the boys [or in this particular case Nate] are simply seen as themselves without the consequences of their actions. In Citizen An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine many examples appear on page 10 you can’t quite tell the gender of the person since author uses 2nd person point of view.
Similar in nature, lesser offences such as tormenting are found in Susan Faludi’s writing, “The Naked Citadel”, where the student population contains cadets that are mentally unhealthy. Because The Citadel has an all male student body, it becomes easier for them to share the same distaste for females wanting to join The Citadel. The distaste that they carry for females is shown through the inhumane, continuous tormenting that the students inflict on each other. Susan Faludi describes some of these acts, where “The beaten knobs were the women, ‘stripped’ and humiliated, and the predatory upperclassmen were the men, who bully and pillaged” (85). The men feel need the power to hurt others due to their seclusion of females, ironically again since
In music when a musician transposes a piece, they change the notes or the key of the song so that it matches their ability and personal taste. Transposing takes away the original sound of the song and instead has the imprint of the musician. Johann Sebastian Bach, one of the world’s most renowned composers, transposed his music. Why did he do this? When Bach wrote a song, he later changed the parts so that his favorite instrument, the harpsichord, would sound the best.
The movie Real Women Have Curves was about a Mexican- American your woman by the name of Ana. Ana struggle to accept the traditions of her family that were heavily enforced by her mother Carmen. Ana has just graduated high school, quit her job, and dreams about attending college. Her mother had a different plan than Ana. After finding out that Ana has quit her job she forces Ana to come work in her sister Estela’s dress factory.
Love tends to effect each character’s action differently. For example, love is what motivated the plot of the story “The Valley of Girls” by Kelly Link. For instance, the Olds observed society and performed actions to make sure their children are aligned with success. Love and social status is what makes these people relate, or correlate with each other; it reminds me of a government politically develop by love and society. In “The Valley of Girls” by Kelly Link, from Teenagers and Old are motivated by two specific motives, which are love and social status.
When seeing the title “The Fat Girl” by Andre Dubus, I assumed it to be another story about a fat girl who would be depressed and insecure about her size. However, as I started reading, I learned that Louise, the fat girl, was not ashamed of herself and I became interested because my assumption was wrong. All the conflict about her size came from her mother and other relatives or friends. The title itself tells what the entire story is about. The entire story is about the life of “the fat girl”.
Anna Cai Ms. Filice ENG1D0-C December 20, 2022 Independent growth in the characters of Bifocal Fear of the unknown translates into racism. Islamophobia, a sect of racism, skyrocketed after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Ultimately, this affects schools, especially high school students. Islamophobia infects the young, impressionable minds of high school students. In the novel Bifocal by Deborah Ellis and Eric Walters, the characters Jay, Haroon and Zana are impacted by Islamophobia, it is through their independent growth that they have hope to dismantle and fight Islamophobia in their high school.
Internalized oppression is a process by which systematic mistreatment of individuals in a subjugated group causes them to come to accept and live out inaccurate stereotypes (Williams, 32). This form of oppression is ubiquitous in many groups of oppressed people, from racial minorities to women to disabled people, and can result in both conscious and unconscious feelings of unworthiness. Disabled women are often victims of intense and compounded internalized oppression due to their membership in at least two oppressed groups. Women and girls with disabilities, from childhood, face intense external oppression from the media, the medical system, and society at large. Many internalize false stereotypes about their sexuality, abilities, and, tragically, the idea that disabled lives are worth less.
The school bus in the Shape of A Girl takes the students from one place to another. Although, it has a much deeper meaning based on what happens on the way there. Throughout the play, the school bus takes an important role in symbolizing silence. The school bus provides a setting in which girls and boys are segregated and where some of the more emotional events in the play take place.
Imagine being told as a female in today’s world you must look or act a ¬¬certain way in order to be accepted. Being what you want to be is not allowed and changes have to be made in order to be included. They say “pain is beauty, and beauty is pain” as they way a woman looks today are completely different from ten or even fifty years ago. In this paper, the reader will understand the mind of a woman in today’s society and the difficulties to be not only accepted but being her own person as well. Not only has the appearance of a woman changed but also role titles and job descriptions as well.
This essay will argue what is meant by the representation of the Other in the novels The Icarus Girl and Shadow Tag. The other is a representation of the questions surrounding identity that arise in these texts. The Icarus Girl focuses on the alternate identities of Jessamy Harrison and her struggle to find a fitting identity because of having a multi-national heritage. Shadow Tag takes a different approach to the question of identity, as Irene America attempts to escape her identity as a domestic abuse victim in the blue diary that she keeps hidden from her husband Gil. There is also the question about the identity of the narrative voice of the novel.
It centers on females and how they act at that certain age. The four mean girls, Regina George, Gretchen Wieners, Karen Smith and Cady Heron represent the stereotypes of the popular girls of high school. The role of gender plays an important role in the movie. The movie discusses the aspects of how a “typical” teenage girl should be, in order for her to fit in.
Adolescence is a time where we let go of the innocence of childhood and start exploring the deep and dark world of Adulthood. Your body starts changing, you start feeling emotions you never have felt before and you begin to see the world from a different perspective. Seeing a new perspective brings charges of its own for example fighting with your parents, arguments, friendship problems and conflict. In both the novel ‘Cedar B Hartley’ written Martine Murray and the movie ‘Mean Girls’ directed by Mark Waters, the adolescence issues of Bullying and Identity are explored. The novel ‘Cedar B Hartley’ is about a 12 year old girl beginning to go through adolescence experiencing bullying, meeting new people and discovery new things she never knew.
Visual Analysis In 1948, one of America’s greatest artist of the 20th century, Andrew Wyeth illustrated the painting Christina’s World. This artist often created paintings that related to personal or general real life issues. The young woman in the painting happened to be a good friend and neighbor to Wyeth. His paintings often depicted the sorrow and despair of life, just like Chirstina’s.
Introduction “The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity” from Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body by Susan Bordo (1993) introduces the discourses around the female body, and the different perspectives that influence this body. She goes on to explain that the body is a medium for culture, from which contemporary societies can replicate itself. In addition, Bordo (1993) provides continuous insight on how women have changed throughout the years to be more within societies norms, and how they have transformed so much to manage their bodies to becoming desirable within the culture. Throughout this essay, I will be explaining how women have for centuries, used there bodies as a means to rebel against these norms that have been placed upon them, such as being a typical housewife. For years, women have been discriminated against and unable to speak their opinion.
